Privacy & cookies notice

Your privacy

You can visit our website without telling us who you are or revealing any information about yourself. However, if you give us any personal information about yourself or others we promise to treat it securely, fairly and lawfully and are committed to protecting your privacy.

When we ask you for personal information online it will only be in response to you actively applying for or using one of our online products or services.

If you are giving us information for the first time we shall explain the purposes for which we shall use it at that time. If you are a customer already, this explanation will be in your account terms and conditions.

We may use personal information you provide for the purpose of providing more relevant investment information to you. A link to our full policy is provided HERE.

Cookies – what are they?

A cookie is a small data file that certain websites write to your hard drive when you visit them. A cookie file can contain information such as a user ID that the site uses to track the pages you've visited, but the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites.

Cookies – how we use them

If you delete cookies relating to this website we will not remember things about you and you will be treated as a first-time visitor the next time you visit the site. Cookies are used by this website, and third party services used by this website, to:

  • Provide products and services that you request and to provide a secure online environment
  • Manage our customer relationships
  • Provide a better online experience and track website performance
  • Help make our website more relevant to you

If you prefer not to receive cookies while browsing our website, you can set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies and refuse the cookie when your browser alerts you to its presence. You can also refuse all cookies by turning them off in your browser, although you may not be able to take full advantage of our website if you do so. In particular, you may be required to accept cookies in order to complete certain actions on our website. You do not need to have cookies turned on, however, to use/navigate through many parts of this website, except access to certain webpages which may require a login and password.